With IHR moves and moves of periodicals from Senate House Library ongoing we are about to start the next phase which is the main collection moves across the various parts of the Senate House Library. We have a draft schedule. Please note that his is subject to change and amendment, largely because contractors are still completing works in the areas we are moving into.
This next stage will have two teams of movers working at the same time, as nearly every part of the collection is being moved. The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Collection is currently scheduled to be moved between the 15th and 17th of August, and will be moved to the 6th Floor, North of the Senate House Library (entry from the 4th Floor South Block). The Ground Floor area will close shortly after this following move of books from the Palaeography and Book Studies area.
For up to date information please also see:
http://senatehouselibrary.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/refurbishment
Tuesday, 26 July 2011
Monday, 25 July 2011
Shorelines and Shadows: Literary Representations of Queer and Postcolonial Mythical Beings
A one-day postgraduate conference hosted by the Joint Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Research Theme, Minorities Identities: Rights and Representations (University of Reading, UK)
Saturday 26 November 2011
Shorelines and Shadows: Literary Representations of Queer and Postcolonial Mythical Beings
Given the increasing diversity of peoples within nations and the plurality of postmodern histories, this conference seeks to interrogate the issues at stake in defining gendered, national, and sexual identities suggested by mythological beings, such as vampires, werewolves, zombies, mermaids, spirits, jablesses, gods, and obscured historical figures. We suggest that the liminality and taxonomical uncertainties posed by such figures may help to mobilise suppressed historical narratives and undo the silences that surround minority subjectivities. This conference addresses the ways in which their psychological, social, political, cultural, and aesthetic functions have been re/interpreted and employed.
Keynote Speaker: Jamaican writer and academic Kei Miller
Topics may include (without being limited to):
Abstracts of no more than 250 words for papers of 20 minutes should be submitted to: Rebecca Ashworth and Lotti Mealing pocomyth@yahoo.co.uk
Please include a brief biog-sketch (not more than 50 words) including institutional affiliation and area of research.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Monday 15 August 2011
Successful contributors will be notified by 1 September 2011.
Conference fee: £30 (Postgraduate students: £20)
Saturday 26 November 2011
Shorelines and Shadows: Literary Representations of Queer and Postcolonial Mythical Beings
Given the increasing diversity of peoples within nations and the plurality of postmodern histories, this conference seeks to interrogate the issues at stake in defining gendered, national, and sexual identities suggested by mythological beings, such as vampires, werewolves, zombies, mermaids, spirits, jablesses, gods, and obscured historical figures. We suggest that the liminality and taxonomical uncertainties posed by such figures may help to mobilise suppressed historical narratives and undo the silences that surround minority subjectivities. This conference addresses the ways in which their psychological, social, political, cultural, and aesthetic functions have been re/interpreted and employed.
Keynote Speaker: Jamaican writer and academic Kei Miller
Topics may include (without being limited to):
- Listening to other/ed desires
- Representing collective trauma
- Transgressing and challenging borders and categorizations
- Contesting ‘received’ histories and epistemologies
- Personifying nature and natural disasters
- Utopian and dystopian imaginaries
- Colonial legacies, Neo-colonialism, and Cultural Imperialism
Abstracts of no more than 250 words for papers of 20 minutes should be submitted to: Rebecca Ashworth and Lotti Mealing pocomyth@yahoo.co.uk
Please include a brief biog-sketch (not more than 50 words) including institutional affiliation and area of research.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Monday 15 August 2011
Successful contributors will be notified by 1 September 2011.
Conference fee: £30 (Postgraduate students: £20)
Saturday, 23 July 2011
New Zealand, South Africa, Rugby and apartheid: 30 years since the 1981 tour
The controversial 1981 Springbok tour, which divided NZ, began 30 years today. The South African Rugby tour was the focus of intense debate and protest throughout New Zealand and sport and politics became intensely mixed. The tour also acted as a catalyst for an examination of racism within New Zealand, with indigenous Maori people highlighting the connections between apartheid in South Africa and racism in New Zealand.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library holds a selection of material relating to the anti-apartheid movement in New Zealand, including publications from the National Anti-Apartheid Committee, the Apartheid Information Centre, The Wellington Trades Council and Halt All Racist Tours (HART), as well as books looking back at that time such as Trevor Richard's Dancing on our bones : New Zealand, South Africa, rugby and racism and Malcom Templeton's Human rights and sporting contacts : New Zealand attitudes to race relations in South Africa 1921-94.
A photo gallery from the 1981 tour is available from the NZ Herald website.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library holds a selection of material relating to the anti-apartheid movement in New Zealand, including publications from the National Anti-Apartheid Committee, the Apartheid Information Centre, The Wellington Trades Council and Halt All Racist Tours (HART), as well as books looking back at that time such as Trevor Richard's Dancing on our bones : New Zealand, South Africa, rugby and racism and Malcom Templeton's Human rights and sporting contacts : New Zealand attitudes to race relations in South Africa 1921-94.
A photo gallery from the 1981 tour is available from the NZ Herald website.
Friday, 22 July 2011
Theses in Progress in Commonwealth Studies 2011
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies’ Register of Commonwealth Research is a list of higher degree theses conducted at UK Universities and relating to the Commonwealth of Nations, its member countries, and the former British Empire. The Register has been maintained since 1949 and covers research both in progress and completed; its retrospective coverage extends back to the 1920s.
From the data held in the Register, the Institute compiles and publishes Theses in Progress in Commonwealth Studies as a snapshot of current research on the Commonwealth and Empire in Britain. The 2011 edition is now available.
In December 2006, the School of Advanced Study launched its online repository, SAS Space. This provided the opportunity, for the first time, to make available the files of the full Register. These are sub-divided by region and contain almost 17,500 records in total. The files are added annually and can be found online at SAS-Space.
The Register, and Theses in Progress, are compiled and maintained as a source of current and past research on the Commonwealth, and also as a point of contact between candidates for higher degrees in British universities. Readers of this directory may be interested to know about the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Professional Networks, set up to encourage communication on themes of relevance across the Commonwealth. These Networks are open to past and current Commonwealth Scholars, and to anyone with an interest in the respective fields. More information on the networks can be found at the CSC website.
From the data held in the Register, the Institute compiles and publishes Theses in Progress in Commonwealth Studies as a snapshot of current research on the Commonwealth and Empire in Britain. The 2011 edition is now available.
In December 2006, the School of Advanced Study launched its online repository, SAS Space. This provided the opportunity, for the first time, to make available the files of the full Register. These are sub-divided by region and contain almost 17,500 records in total. The files are added annually and can be found online at SAS-Space.
The Register, and Theses in Progress, are compiled and maintained as a source of current and past research on the Commonwealth, and also as a point of contact between candidates for higher degrees in British universities. Readers of this directory may be interested to know about the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission Professional Networks, set up to encourage communication on themes of relevance across the Commonwealth. These Networks are open to past and current Commonwealth Scholars, and to anyone with an interest in the respective fields. More information on the networks can be found at the CSC website.
Thursday, 21 July 2011
Nehru Memorial Museum and Library digitisation
The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), India is starting a large-scale digitisation programme. The pilot so far has digitized 50 collections of manuscripts, 834 interview transcripts, 29,802 photographs, over one lakh images of the newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika (dating from 1905 to 1938) and much more.
The Digital Library includes:
Private papers (the Nehru Memorial Museum Library [NMML] Archives was set up in 1964 with the family papers of Jawaharlal Nehru and now has over 1,000 collections of personal papers of eminent leaders and institutional records, and claims to be largest repository in the country of primary and non-official source material for historical research on Modern Indian History. The collection of personal papers include those of freedom fighters, politicians, educationists, scientists, jurists and industrialists who contributed to the making of modern India. These include among others, private papers of M.K. Gandhi, C. Rajagopalachari, B.C. Roy, Jayaprakash Narayan, Charan Singh, Sarojini Naidu and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In the list of institutional records, one will find the papers of the All India Congress Committee, All India Hindu Mahasabha, All India Trade Union congress, Indian Merchants’ Chamber and D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society, among others.)
Oral History (including the recollections of men and women who came into contact with India’s great leaders or were connected with important political events or movements either as participants or as witnesses. The oral history recordings and the transcripts cover the wide span of the nationalist movement and thereafter, going back to the partition of Bengal, and the First World War; the Satyagraha campaigns, the activities of revolutionary and terrorist groups, growth of the Socialist movement, Indo-British relations in the context of Indian and British politics, and the events leading to the partition of India. )
Newspapers and Journals (currently available is a selection of the title Amrit Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), 1905-1996)
and
Photographs (including photographs of Jawaharlal Nehru and his contemporaries as well as of important events associated with the nationalist movement. The photographs have been acquired from several sources, mainly as gifts from organizations like the Press Information Bureau (PIB), Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust (IGMT), Photo Division, and the Nehru Collection, and individuals like Shri P.N. Sharma, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Mohammad Yunus, Pyarelal and Shri K.R. Narayanan. The Photo-Section of the Library has at present 1,15,068 photographs in the General Collection, 52,072 in the IGMT collection and 4030 in Mohammad Yunus collection & 4541 in KRN collection which have been processed.)
The material currently available within the Digital Library is a small selection of these very large collections, but a growing one, well worth exploring and returning to.
The Digital Library includes:
Private papers (the Nehru Memorial Museum Library [NMML] Archives was set up in 1964 with the family papers of Jawaharlal Nehru and now has over 1,000 collections of personal papers of eminent leaders and institutional records, and claims to be largest repository in the country of primary and non-official source material for historical research on Modern Indian History. The collection of personal papers include those of freedom fighters, politicians, educationists, scientists, jurists and industrialists who contributed to the making of modern India. These include among others, private papers of M.K. Gandhi, C. Rajagopalachari, B.C. Roy, Jayaprakash Narayan, Charan Singh, Sarojini Naidu and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur. In the list of institutional records, one will find the papers of the All India Congress Committee, All India Hindu Mahasabha, All India Trade Union congress, Indian Merchants’ Chamber and D.A.V. College Trust and Management Society, among others.)
Oral History (including the recollections of men and women who came into contact with India’s great leaders or were connected with important political events or movements either as participants or as witnesses. The oral history recordings and the transcripts cover the wide span of the nationalist movement and thereafter, going back to the partition of Bengal, and the First World War; the Satyagraha campaigns, the activities of revolutionary and terrorist groups, growth of the Socialist movement, Indo-British relations in the context of Indian and British politics, and the events leading to the partition of India. )
Newspapers and Journals (currently available is a selection of the title Amrit Bazar Patrika (Calcutta), 1905-1996)
and
Photographs (including photographs of Jawaharlal Nehru and his contemporaries as well as of important events associated with the nationalist movement. The photographs have been acquired from several sources, mainly as gifts from organizations like the Press Information Bureau (PIB), Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust (IGMT), Photo Division, and the Nehru Collection, and individuals like Shri P.N. Sharma, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, Mohammad Yunus, Pyarelal and Shri K.R. Narayanan. The Photo-Section of the Library has at present 1,15,068 photographs in the General Collection, 52,072 in the IGMT collection and 4030 in Mohammad Yunus collection & 4541 in KRN collection which have been processed.)
The material currently available within the Digital Library is a small selection of these very large collections, but a growing one, well worth exploring and returning to.
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
IHR Library moves
Please be aware that the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and the library are moving. Details of moves are available at: http://ihrrelocation.wordpress.com/
The move of the library collections going into closed access started yesterday. As this affects material on all floors there is likely to be a lot of disruption and the lift will be difficult to access. The move of the collections remaining on open access is expected to begin from Tuesday 26th July and the library will close completely between 28th July and 2nd August. Details of new locations of the collections are available here: http://www.history.ac.uk/library/collections/collection-locations
The move of the library collections going into closed access started yesterday. As this affects material on all floors there is likely to be a lot of disruption and the lift will be difficult to access. The move of the collections remaining on open access is expected to begin from Tuesday 26th July and the library will close completely between 28th July and 2nd August. Details of new locations of the collections are available here: http://www.history.ac.uk/library/collections/collection-locations
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Bridgetown, Barbados enters UN World Heritage List
Earlier this month the historic section of the capital of Barbados became the Caribbean country's first entry on the United Nations-managed World Heritage List after a committee of experts approved its inscription and that of two other sites.
The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Paris, said Bridgetown and its garrison deserved a place on the List, which is comprised of more than 900 cultural or natural sites around the world regarded as having outstanding universal value.
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported that the committee found the Bridgetown site – comprised of a well-preserved old town and a nearby military garrison – to be an outstanding example of British colonial architecture.
“With its serpentine urban layout, the property testifies to a different approach to colonial town planning compared to the Spanish and Dutch colonial cities of the region, which were built along a grid plan,” UNESCO said in a press statement.
We congratulate Barbados on this acheivement.
The World Heritage Committee, meeting in Paris, said Bridgetown and its garrison deserved a place on the List, which is comprised of more than 900 cultural or natural sites around the world regarded as having outstanding universal value.
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported that the committee found the Bridgetown site – comprised of a well-preserved old town and a nearby military garrison – to be an outstanding example of British colonial architecture.
“With its serpentine urban layout, the property testifies to a different approach to colonial town planning compared to the Spanish and Dutch colonial cities of the region, which were built along a grid plan,” UNESCO said in a press statement.
We congratulate Barbados on this acheivement.
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